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SAT Reading Passage Comparison Drill 3, Problem 4
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- Synthesis / Analyzing multiple texts
- Product Type / SAT Reading
- Persuasive Texts / Shifts in Perspective
- Informational Media Literacy / Social and Cultural Views
- Synthesis / Analyzing multiple texts
Transcript
- 00:06
Every time you Shmoop...an angel gets its wings.
- 00:22
The attitudes of the two passages toward the use of telephones or cell phones is best characterized
- 00:28
by which of the following statements?
- 00:34
In this case, attitude is less about sarcasm and insults than the general tone and perspective
- 00:40
of the passages.
Full Transcript
- 00:42
Mama Shmoop thinks they're the same thing, apparently, or else we wouldn't get yelled
- 00:46
at so much.
- 00:47
Similar to sentence completion, we can treat this question like a two-parter and start
- 00:51
process-of-eliminating our way to a solution.
- 00:55
For example, all we have to do is look at the first part of choice (B) to know that
- 00:59
it's all kinds of wrong. All Passage 1 does is go on and on about how big and important
- 01:04
the invention of the telephone was.
- 01:05
Kinda like when Mama Shmoop goes on and on about the importance of mayonnaise to a healthy diet.
- 01:11
The first part of choice (E) smells as funky as old mayo. Passage 1 says that the telephone
- 01:17
contributed a ton to society...
- 01:19
We can toss choice (E) in the trash where it belongs.
- 01:22
Now we can move on to the second part of the answer choices.
- 01:26
All Passage 2 does is complain about the trouble telephones eventually caused, so it's very
- 01:31
wrong to say that it encourages people to use them. We can definitely hang up on (C).
- 01:36
Let's hope it doesn't call back. Choice (A) is a tricky one for sure. Both
- 01:40
parts seem kinda sorta plausible.
- 01:42
We're going to go ahead and nix it though, because Passage 2 doesn't necessarily argue
- 01:46
against Bell's invention specifically.
- 01:49
It's more concerned with the effect of the telephone's modern incarnations like cell
- 01:53
phones and the texting they allow.
- 01:55
This leaves us with choice (D), which works great for us because both parts fit.
- 02:00
The first passage does celebrate the usefulness of telephones, while the second passage would
- 02:05
text you major sad faces about the modern use of phones--if it didn't hate texting so much.
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